Big Day (Bird Race)
25 February 2000
by Bernard F. Master
Big Day Statistics:
| COMMON NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME |
| Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus |
| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura |
| King Vulture | Sarcoramphus papa |
| Roadside Hawk | Buteo magnirostris |
| White-tailed Hawk | Buteo albicaudatus |
| Crested Caracara | Caracara plancus |
| Yellow-headed Caracara | Milvago chimachima |
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius |
| Blackish Rail | Pardirallus nigricans |
| Rock Dove | Columba livia |
| Scaled Dove | Columbina squammata |
| Ruddy Ground-Dove | Columbina talpacoti |
| Gray-fronted Dove | Leptotila rufaxilla |
| Blue-winged Macaw | Ara maracana |
| Maroon-bellied Parakeet | Pyrrhura frontalis |
| Blue-winged Parrotlet | Forpus xanthopterygius |
| Squirrel Cuckoo | Piaya cayana |
| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani |
| Guira Cuckoo | Guira guira |
| Barn Owl | Tyto alba |
| Brazilian Pygmy-Owl | Glaucidiium minutissimum |
| Gray-rumped Swift | Chaetura cinereiventris |
| Scale-throated Hermit | Phaethornis eurynome |
| Planalto Hermit | Phaethornis pretrei |
| Swallow-tailed Hummingbird | Eupetomena macroura |
| Glittering-bellied Emerald | Chlorostilbon aureoventris |
| Violet-capped Woodnymph | Thalurania glaucopis |
| Sombre Hummingbird | Aphantochroa cirrochloris |
| Surucua Trogon | Trogon surrucura |
| Golden-spangled Piculet | Picumnus exilis |
| Tawny Piculet | Picumus fulvescens |
| Red-stained Woodpecker | Veniliornis affinis |
| Yellow-throated Woodpecker | Piculus flavigula |
| Lineated Woodpecker | Dryocopus lineatus |
| Olivaceous Woodcreeper | Sittasomus griseicapillus |
| Scaled Woodcreeper | Lepidocolaptes squamatus |
| Lesser Woodcreeper | Lepidocolaptes fuscus |
| Pale-legged Hornero | Furnarius leucopus |
| Rufous Hornero | Furnarius rufus |
| Bahia Spinetail | Synallaxis whitneyi |
| Sooty-fronted Spinetail | Synallaxis frontalis |
| Pallid Spinetail | Cranioleuca pallida |
| Yellow-chinned Spinetail | Certhiaxis cinnamomea |
| Striated Softtail | Thripophaga macroura |
| Common Thornbird | Phacellodomus rufifrons |
| Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper | Lochmias nematura |
| Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner | Philydor lichtensteini |
| Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner | Philydor rufus |
| Black-capped Foliage-gleaner | Philydor atricapillus |
| White-collared Foliage-gleaner | Anabazenops fuscus |
| Streaked Xenops | Xenops rutilans |
| Spot-backed Antshrike | Hypoedaleus guttatus |
| Tufted Antshrike | Mackenziaena severa |
| Silvery-cheeked Antshrike | Sakesphorus cristatus |
| Variable Antshrike | Thamnophilus caerulescens |
| Spot-breasted Antvireo | Dysithamnus stictothorax |
| Rufous-winged Antwren | Herpsilochmus rufimarginatus |
| Rio de Janeiro Antbird | Cercomacra brasiliana |
| White-shouldered Fire-eye | Pyriglena leucoptera |
| Such's Antthrush | Chamaeza meruloides |
| Sharpbill | Oxyruncus cristatus |
| Blue Manakin | Chiroxiphia caudata |
| Pin-tailed Manakin | Ilicura militaris |
| White-bearded Manakin | Manacus manacus |
| Sepia-capped Flycatcher | Leptopogon amaurocephalus |
| Drab-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant | Hemitriccus diops |
| Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant | Hemitriccus furcatus |
| Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher | Todirostrum poliocephalum |
| Common Tody-Flycatcher | Todirostrum cinereum |
| Planalto Tyrannulet | Phyllomyias fasciatus |
| Yellow Tyrannulet | Capsiempis flaveola |
| Yellow-bellied Elaenia | Elaenia flavogaster |
| Oustalet's Tyrannulet | Phylloscartes oustaleti |
| Yellow-olive Flycatcher | Tolmomyias sulphurescens |
| Yellow-breasted Flycatcher | Tolmomyias flaviventris |
| Euler's Flycatcher | Lathrotriccus euleri |
| Masked Water-Tyrant | Fluvicola nengeta |
| Long-tailed Tyrant | Colonia colonus |
| Grayish Mourner | Rhytipterna simplex |
| Sirystes | Sirystes sibilator |
| Short-crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus ferox |
| Tropical Kingbird | Tyrannus melancholicus |
| Boat-billed Flycatcher | Megarynchus pitangua |
| Social Flycatcher | Myiozetetes similis |
| Great Kiskadee | Pitangus sulphuratus |
| Greenish Schiffornis | Schiffornis virescens |
| Green-backed Becard | Pachyramphus viridis |
| Chestnut-crowned Becard | Pachyramphus castaneus |
| Rufous-browed Peppershrike | Cyclarhis gujanensis |
| Lemon-chested Greenlet | Hylophilus thoracicus |
| Rufous-bellied Thrush | Turdus rufiventris |
| Cocoa Thrush | Turdus fumigatus |
| White-necked Thrush | Turdus albicollis |
| Moustached Wren | Thryothorus genibarbis |
| House Wren | Troglodytes aedon |
| Long-billed Gnatwren | Ramphocaenus melanurus |
| Brown-chested Martin | Phaeoprogne tapera |
| Gray-breasted Martin | Progne chalybea |
| Blue-and-white Swallow | Notiochelidon cyanoleuca |
| Southern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx ruficollis |
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus |
| Tropical Parula | Parula pitiayumi |
| Masked Yellowthroat | Geothlypis aequinoctialis |
| Golden-crowned Warbler | Basileuterus culicivorus |
| Flavescent Warbler | Basileuterus flaveolus |
| Neotropical River Warbler | Basileuterus rivularis |
| Rufous-collared Sparrow | Zonotrichia capensis |
| Pectoral Sparrow | Arremon taciturnus |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola |
| Cinnamon Tanager | Schistochlamys ruficapillus |
| Orange-headed Tanager | Thlypospis sordida |
| Rufous-headed Tanager | Hemithraupis ruficapilla |
| Flame-crested Tanager | Tachyphonus cristatus |
| White-lined Tanager | Tachyphonus rufus |
| Black-goggled Tanager | Trichothraupis melanops |
| Brazilian Tanager | Ramphocelus bresilius |
| Sayaca Tanager | Thraupis sayaca |
| Golden-chevroned Tanager | Thraupis ornata |
| Palm Tanager | Thraupis palmarum |
| Purple-throated Euphonia | Euphonia chlorotica |
| Violaceous Euphonia | Euphonia violacea |
| Chestnut-bellied Euphonia | Euphonia pectoralis |
| Gilt-edged Tanager | Tangara cyanoventris |
| Burnished-bufTanager | Tangara cayana |
| Blue Dacnis | Dacnis cayana |
| Pileated Finch | Coryphospingus pileatus |
| Blue-black Grassquit | Volatinia jacarina |
| Yellow-bellied Seedeater | Sporophila nigricollis |
| White-bellied Seedeater | Sporophila leucoptera |
| Lesser Seed-Finch | Oryzoborus angolensis |
| Sooty Grassquit | Tiaris fuliginosa |
| Yellow-green Grosbeak | Caryothraustes canadensis |
| Green-winged Saltator | Saltator similis |
| Chopi Blackbird | Gnorimopsar chopi |
| Shiny Cowbird | Molothrus bonariensis |
135 SPECIES